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Carregando... When Beauty Tamed the Beast (Fairy Tales) (edição: 2011)de Eloisa James (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A classic retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Except the Beast is a Duke with a limp and a bad temper and the Beauty is a delightfully snarky heroine with bite. 5 stars. I adore Beauty and the Beast and I loved this retelling. Linnet and Piers are hilarious. The banter between them had me giggling and their chemistry is off the charts. Piers can be a complete and utter ass and Linnet was perfect at calling him out for it. Honestly, Piers wasn't even really all that charming when he tried but Linnet seems to like him as is. She gets bored with men who pander to her and her beauty. And Piers definitely won't pander to her. I liked the way their relationship developed, beginning with friendship of sorts and working up to the romance. Their daily swimming lessons was a nice touch. And I enjoyed the way Linnet gets involved with the medical clinic - helping out to keep the patients entertained. The supporting cast were amusing (Prufrock the butler was a gem) and I liked that the three doctors were named Piers' Ducklings. The only complaint I had was Linnet's naivety/innocence concerning sexual relations - I mean she's well read - she never bothered to pick up a book? That part seemed a bit odd. Still it was a minor issue and it was funny if nothing else. A quick and witty retelling with tons of heart and a lot of snark. 5 stars. At first I thought this book might be to "light" for me. In other words I'm not real big on comedy of manners unless they are absolutely excellently done. A poorly written COM is merely painful and often ludicrous. I wasn't sure that the bits with the characters acting in a manner that they just wouldn't have in the time period might not be too much for me to swallow. However somehow here those elements didn't hit the "that would never happen" button of disgust with me. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a beauty. Naturally, she's betrothed to a beast. ... Linnet has no idea of the danger posed to her heart by a man who may never love her in return. If she decides to be very wicked indeed, what price will she pay for taming his wild heart?"--from publisher's description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Second, I love witty banter, and this book had some great back-and-forth dialogue...but that was all I got. Yes, I understand Piers's personality is very rough, but I like my heroes or heroines to be repentant at the end when they realized they made a mistake in letting the love of their life go. Piers was, but he didn't express that to Linnet, which frustrated me. I wanted the characters to not just bare their hearts to the readers but also to each other.
Finally, I thought the plot was fairly predictable. Obviously romances have a formula, and the hero/heroine get together in the end. The real draw of romances isn't what happens but how. Here, I didn't feel like there was enough mystery with the how. That said, it's to James's credit that I was still clutching my book at the very end because I was so wrapped up in it emotionally.
In the end, I enjoyed this book but not overly so. ( )